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Geoffrey Hartman

Overview

Geoffrey H. Hartman (August 11, 1929 – March 14, 2016) was a German-born American literary theorist, sometimes identified with the Yale School of deconstruction, although he cannot be categorised by a single school or method. Hartman spent most of his career in the comparative literature department at Yale University, where he also founded the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.

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Philosophers who discussed Geoffrey Hartman

• Franz Rosenzweig
• Jacques Derrida
• Kenneth Burke

Related ideas

• Frankfurt
• Weimar Republic
• William Wordsworth
• Yale University
• Cornell University

Place in the tradition

Part of Deconstruction.

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